Biography

Barry Boehm received his B.A. degree from Harvard in 1957, and his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1961 and 1964, all in Mathematics. He also received
an honorary Sc.D. in Computer Science from the U. of Massachusetts in 2000.

Between 1989 and 1992, he served within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
as Director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office, and as
Director of the DDR&E Software and Computer Technology Office. He worked
at TRW from 1973 to 1989, culminating as Chief Scientist of the Defense Systems
Group, and at the Rand Corporation from 1959 to 1973, culminating as Head
of the Information Sciences Department. He was a Programmer-Analyst at General
Dynamics between 1955 and 1959.

His current research interests focus on value-based software engineering,
including a method for integrating a software system's process models, product
models, property models, and success models called Model-Based (System) Architecting
and Software Engineering (MBASE). His contributions to the field include
the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the software process,
the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination,
the foundations for the areas of software risk management and software quality
factor analysis, and two advanced software engineering environments: the TRW
Software Productivity System and Quantum Leap Environment.

He has served on the boards of several scientific journals, including the
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, ACM
Computing Reviews, Automated Software Engineering, Software Process, and Information
and Software Technology. He has served as Chair of the AIAA Technical Committee
on Computer Systems, Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Software Engineering,
and as a member of the Governing Board of the IEEE Computer Society. He has
also served as Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board's Information
Technology Panel, Chair of the NASA Research and Technology Advisory Committee
for Guidance, Control, and Information Processing, and Chair of the Board
of Visitors for the CMU Software Engineering Institute.

His honors and awards include Guest Lecturer of the USSR Academy of Sciences
(1970), the AIAA Information Systems Award (1979), the J.D. Warnier Prize
for Excellence in Information Sciences (1984), the ISPA Freiman Award for
Parametric Analysis (1988), the NSIA Grace Murray Hopper Award (1989), the
Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence (1992), the ASQC Lifetime
Achievement Award (1994), the ACM Distinguished Research Award in Software
Engineering (1997), and the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award (2000). He is a Fellow
of the primary professional societies in computing (ACM), aerospace (AIAA),
electronics (IEEE), and systems engineering (INCOSE), and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.